Voters want UKIP to take on PM in TV debates

MORE than half of voters believe UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage should be allowed to take on David Cameron in live TV clashes at the next election, an exclusive poll for the Daily Express revealed last night.

Fifty-four per cent of people quizzed in the survey by ComRes wanted to see the anti-EU campaigner line up against the Tory Prime Minister, Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg and their Labour counterpart Ed Miliband in the debates due in 2015.

Two-thirds of voters, in the poll of 2,000 adults, said Mr Cameron would “look like a coward” if he fails to take part in a re-run of the live debates that electrified the last election in 2010.

Mr Farage said: “With UKIP’s growing popularity and the centrality of the issues on which we campaign it is pretty obvious from these figures that I agree with the majority of the people of Britain.”